Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

Leadership is about coping with change

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.

Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.